Sentences with phrase «dangerous game it attempts»

This is an oppressive scenario, and The Hunger Games, based on the first book in a trilogy of young adult books by Suzanne Collins (who co-wrote the screenplay with director Gary Ross and Billy Ray), is disconnected from that reality setup, favoring the spectacle of its second act and seeming to buy into the very dangerous game it attempts to critique.

Not exact matches

By analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number of red and yellow cards, a fairly good indicator of unethical behavior in sports because cards are typically awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a dive.

Equally dangerous to science, however, if not more so, are those naturalistic scientists who play essentially the same game as the creationists, i.e., seek to lend credibility to their particular worldview by attempting to clothe it in scientific garb.

He can be a more dangerous asset there because he can go in any direction: He can release for a pass attempt, he can be a front - side or backside blocker as if he were on the line of scrimmage, and most importantly, he can cross the formation at the snap and either seal the backside or release and be a weapon in the pass game.

In this, the season with the highest three - point rate in the 29 - plus years college basketball has used the arc — treys account for 35.2 % of all Division I shot attempts — it's appropriate that the front - runner for national player of the year is also the game's most dangerous, indefatigable and joyful distance shooter.

The game's first opportunity wasn't long in coming as dangerous wideman Iyrwah Gooden latched onto Lewis Gibbens» accurate long pass but volleyed his attempt wide after four minutes.

Anyone who's read Richard Connell's 1924 short story «The Most Dangerous Game» — or seen one of Hollywood's umpteen knock - offs of it — knows the answer is «d.» Now, in an attempt to resurrect a moribund franchise, 20th Century Fox welcomes us back to the jungle for Predators, in which tall, dark, and ugly aliens again hunt humans.

The Audience Award: U.S. Documentary, Presented by Acura: Meru (Directors: Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi)-- Three elite mountain climbers sacrifice everything but their friendship as they struggle through heartbreaking loss and nature's harshest elements to attempt the never - before - completed Shark's Fin on Mount Meru, the most coveted first ascent in the dangerous game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

Then we talk about Bury Me, My Love, a mobile game that puts you in the role of a husband whose wife is a Syrian refugee attempting a dangerous journey to Europe.

Day trading can be a dangerous game and should be attempted only by the most seasoned investors.

With simple goals at hand it's easy to enjoy the mayhem that comes from attempting to control Octodad, but later in the game more situations are introduced where precision and speed are required, and here the game falls apart, that suspicion meter suddenly becoming a dangerous adversary.

In all of the games (with the exception of the Super Mario Galaxy Tweesters with debris), they can not harm the player directly and can only attempt to force them into a more dangerous situation.

In brief, it's a side - scrolling jumping game where you collect coins infinitely while attempting to avoid the world's most dangerous pitfall — lava.

I Expect You To Die is a virtual reality puzzle game where players take on the role of an elite secret agent as they attempt to survive deadly situations in immersive dangerous locals by completing missions using problem solving skills and wits.

Downloading a pirated version of a paid game and attempting to install it is also dangerous.